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- BED 0.2
- Bermuda EDitor
- (c) Vincent Pomey, 1993
-
-
- This file is supposed to be written in english and should
- be considered as the documentation of Bed.
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ============
-
- Bed is a Motif-based FidoNet message editor. It runs with
- a Bermuda message base (aka Pandora format, The-Box format etc).
- In order to use it, you should use the Bermuda mail processing
- software (or equivalent). Bermuda has been posted to alt.sources
- recently.
-
- It is largely based on the look and feel of Led, a similar
- message reader on Atari ST written by Volkmar Wieners and Roland Bohn.
-
- You need an Ansi compiler (e.g. GCC) and the Motif libraries
- to compile it. The file missing.c contains a few functions (strstr,
- strftime) that your libraries may not have. Please check it, as well
- as the associated file missing.h, and remove declarations if you
- already have one of the function. I'm using a BSD 4.3 system.
-
- No warranties included etc etc...
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION
- =============
-
- You need to set the MAILER variable to the directory containing
- tb.cfg (or bermuda.cfg). This file is the configuration file of
- Bermuda, please refer to Bermuda manual for more information. It will
- create in that directory led.new, which contains the lastread pointers.
-
- The "editor" ressource in Bed sets the editor to use for message writing.
-
- When you are asked for a destination, you may enter the user+node
- in two formats :
- Francois Francois @ 2:320/100.0
- or
- Francois Francois (2:320/100.0)
- The point part (.0) and the zone part (2:) are optionnal.
-
- A user-list is kept in the MAILER directory, containing all the
- user names and nodes you have put in it (either by hand or by using the
- "Add user in ulist" function).
-
- When entering a destination field, you may only enter the name,
- Bed will look for the node number in the user list file. It is also
- possible to abbreviate it with only the two initials : you may write a
- message to vp, it will be correctly expanded if you have the line :
- Vincent Pomey 2:320/100.0
- in you ulist file. Note that the separator
- between the name part and the node part is a tab.
-
- The carbon-copy option (send message to multiple users)
- requires a "carbon file" where you put the names of all the carbon
- receivers, one per line. All valid destination formats previously
- explained are ok (abbreviations etc). You choose carbon copy amongst
- the messages flags.
-
- The search option accept any regular expression. Thus it is case
- sensitive if you ask for a 'conventional' string.
-
- The previous subject/next subject search for message with the same
- subject (ignoring the eventual heading Re:)
-
- TODO
- ====
- Headers editing
- Built-in editor ?
- Space will scroll down the message (I need to look in my Motif book)
- More option in search (case insensitive etc)
-
- That's all folks !
-
- vincent@stell.frmug.fr.net or Vincent Pomey (2:320/100.2)
-